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Clermont Ferrand is the home city of the World known tyres manufacturer Michelin
At Clermont Ferrand everybody work for Michelin who has their its head quarters and more than 4 huge plants
No need to find why in 1967 it was decided to built a new race track in the Clermont Ferrand surrounding mountains
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For its next race the 1958 Tour Auto (September 14th/September 21 st) Claude Storez will discover its bright new Zagato Porsche
Before to tell you how went this race, its time to wonder what could have push Claude Storez to have a light 356 specially built for him.
Indeed as you have seen, Claude who was not only a talented pilot who has had the huge chance to drive the best ever built Porsches, 356 Carrera, 550, 550 RS and even the bright new 718 RSK but also a wealyhy young man who had enough money to buy for himself any of the cars available on the market
Another supposition is that through his friendship with Auguste Veuillet and Gonzague Olivier, both friends of Ferry Porsche, Claude Storez could have been ask by Ferry Porsche to study how to improve the ageeing 356
You all know that only a few months after Claude Storez had his Zagato Porsche built, Ferry Porsche had the same idea asking Carlo Abarth to develop what would certainly be the best ever X... Porsche built : the 356 Abarth Carrera
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I have no proof of Claude Storez working on Ferry Porsche behalf, one thing is certain : Claude had the full support of Porsche KG to build is car.
A bare 356 A chassis was send direct from Zuffenhausen to the Zagato works at Milano
When Zagato had the aluminium body assembled on the chassis, the whole pack was sent back to Zuffenhausen to have the Fuhrmann engine, suspensions, brakes etc...assembled
When the car was completed it was sent to Claude Storez who got it in August 1958
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Claude and Marcel had to retire during the second leg of the 1958 Tour Auto for a reason I don't know
Apparently Claude did not race his Zagato until the 1959 Rallye des Routes du Nord
Nevertheless by November 8th/November9th Claude got a contract from the Renault factory to drive a Dauphine Gordini at the Tour de Corse
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